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Michael Foucault's genealogies, which depend on the Nietzschean account of the violent origin of human culture, present a debatable description of the innate struggle in the emergence of human domination. Dawkin's parallel fiction gives priority to cultural transmission rather than domination. This new fiction removes the possibility of conflict, struggle and agonism, which were considered important in defining history.

Presents Michel Foucault's genealogies and the creation of a parallel fiction of emergence to replace the Nietzschean accounts of violence with Richard Dawkin's account of the centrality of cultural transmission. Three technologies of Foucault's genealogies; How Foucault's genealogies are incomplete in light of an emergence based in cultural transmission; How Nietzsche describes the drama of entstehung or emergence in the book, `On the Genealogy of Morals.'